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Tibet is often associated with the scent of burning incenses and ever-lit butter lanterns in monasteries.

Since the Cultural Revolution ended, Beijing has stepped back from trying to obliterate Tibetan culture, and rebuilt some monasteries.

"Monks can now practice and reside in monasteries, but we're talking about long before the establishment of any monastery, " he said.

Monks loved playing tennis so much that they would skip out on their duties at the monasteries.

At other monasteries, up and down the remote hillsides and the steep valleys, Mr Smith made a present of portable hard drives.

The monks were not restricted to only brewing the beer, and consumption of it within the monasteries reached astonishing levels.

The Christian religion will collapse and the churches and monasteries will end up in ruins and ashes.

The Gelug Sect rose during the Ming Dynasty, and the 3rd Dalai Lama was the abbot of one of the sect's monasteries.

Tawang is a centre of Tibet's Buddhist culture, with one of the biggest Tibetan monasteries outside Lhasa.

Tashilhunpo Monastery, founded in 1447 by the First Dalai Lama, is one of the Big Six Monasteries of the Gelug sect of Buddhism in Tibet.

on behalf of Emperor Kangxi Dynasty years, the case of the Gelug Sect monasteries, Block, north to south civil structures alone.

Monasteries became centers for the preservation of classical learning and the transferral of that knowledge to modern times.

The basis of the overall quality of the child is a child, her parents monasteries, a subtle influence.

Especially famous are the Trappist beers which are brewed from scratch in one of only seven authorized monasteries.

Although the number of monks in most monasteries has declined over the decades, Mount Athos has enjoyed a revival in the last 25 years.

Arms caches were cleaned out of the main monasteries, and key conspirators were arrested.

Soon, the Brethren of the Common Life had monasteries all over the Low Countries.

Loans have come from the Vatican, as well as monasteries and museums in Europe and America.

Education in Mongolia traditionally was controlled by the Buddhist monasteries and was limited to monks.

Temples, monasteries, churches and mosques can give prosperous Chinese a motive to help provide welfare.

Second, monasteries were the centers of culture and education. Nunneries were the best places for the noble women to acquire knowledge.

In recent days, security forces have been raiding Buddhist monasteries and detaining monks accused of instigating the recent demonstrations.

The monasteries are a Unesco World Heritage Site, and they're known as Meteora, which means "suspended in the air. "

That means it is entirely possible to restore those monasteries to what they were, citing local wisdom and skills.

The internal affairs of temples and monasteries are independently handled by the management bodies formed through democratic elections.

Among the monasteries receiving Chinese funding are those in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim.

Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, Labrang Monastery, one of six major monasteries, located right here.

Historical writings suggest that there may once have been as many as 10 monasteries in these hills, but today there is no trace of them.

I see Don Juan in a cell of one of those Spanish monasteries lost on a hilltop.

Local families no longer routinely submit their second sons to the monasteries, making recruitment of monks a concern.

During the height of monastic power in the Middle Ages, thousands of monasteries dotted Greece.

It was an essential element in more complex assemblies of buildings such as castles, colleges, or monasteries.

I mourn for those beautiful Serbian monasteries, at Decani, Pec and Gracanica, that will now, more than ever, be islands in an alien sea.

Unlike at other Pyrenean monasteries, no looting had occurred here during the French Revolution, so both its art and message had survived.

While creating the splendid Buddhist culture, monasteries, however, hindered the social progress and the popularization of civilization.

These beautiful engravings lavishly decorate the columns, beams, door, windows and cross-beam supports in Tibetan monasteries and temples.

His various hideouts reportedly included monasteries in Montenegro and mountain caves in remote eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina .

He also serves as the abbot of the monasteries in Guanghua in Fujian province and Famen in Shaanxi province.

"Visit the Saxon villages in Romanian Transylvania. In Bulgaria, I would go for the medieval monasteries and Black Sea resorts. "

Saint Theodosia the virgin martyr, the abbots of the monasteries, the artists, they hold the pictures that they died for.

Such campaigns are now a standard feature of life in Tibetan monasteries and nunneries.

Watching over both patriarch and emperor were the monks, whose countless monasteries were not organized in Orders, as in the West.

The Nag Hammadi trove was buried in a heavy, waist-high jar, perhaps by monks from the nearby monasteries of St. Pachomius.

Buddhist monasteries and temples were built to promote the Buddhism and some of the Emperors were also the followers of Buddhism.

As a photographer there, I spent inordinate amounts of time hanging out at temples, mosques, monasteries, etc.

The city's other main monasteries, Drepung, Sera and Ramoche, were also surrounded by police with the monks locked inside.

Monasteries enjoyed special jurisdiction in handling political affairs.

Initial resistance from some senior monks and fears of diluting traditional studies in monasteries have gradually eased.

Dozens of monasteries had been dissolved before Henry VIII.

This respect for wildlife extends beyond the monasteries and into the wider community.

The conclusion sums up the status of English monasteries after the Black Death.

daily life is dominated by traditional buddhist ideas , and the remote mountain regions are dotted with buddhist monasteries.

Buddhism has and Bodhisattva statues have been placed for worship in monasteries.

The famous painted monasteries of Bukovina make an important contribution to European architecture.

Before that, in England, books were laboriously hand written and illustrated mainly by monks in monasteries.

Moreover external seize and internal thieve pushed the monasteries' economy into crisis deeper.

They are central to the practice of Tibetan Buddhism, occupying a bully pulpit and drawing financial support to monasteries and temples.

Some monasteries are open to the public as a place to rest and meditate.

Temples, monasteries, nunneries are spread all over the mountain.

I have stayed in monasteries for several months, meditated, led a disciplined life, read a great deal.

Almost all monasteries run by the karmapa are located in strategically-sensitive areas where there are key army and air force installations.

The road continues, with Tibetan monasteries and stupas dotting the hills and valleys.

If you're visiting Europe, check with tourism boards about inexpensive rooms to rent in convents and monasteries.

In some monasteries police have seized computers and mobile telephones from monks to suppress news of the security operation.

In 1792, many Kagyu monasteries were confiscated and their monks were forcibly converted to the Gelug sect (the Dalai Lama's denomination).

They were mostly written by young Buddhist monks of various monasteries.

Eventually these measures were adopted by other Cistercian monasteries.

Walking or riding on a mule, a tourist can look into the monasteries one by one.

The destruction of its monasteries spread a loathing of China that endures.

Thou shalt not go on panty raids into Sister of Battle monasteries.

Dizzying towers of rock soar above Greece's northern plains and support centuries-old monasteries.

Last spring, after the uprising, security forces in Lhasa cleared out monasteries and jailed monks for months.

Like traditional monasteries, residents spent much of their time in prayer and supplication.

For more than a millennium years, numerous monasteries and temples arose on Tibetan land.

If you take it as about daily life matters, should we destroy all Buddha images and monasteries?

He remained fifty years in Tibet founding Monasteries and teaching the tantras doctrine.

Buddhist monasteries to commemorate the founder of Buddhism, Sakya Muni Shing Road, Hong Gu, and fruits are taken Aozhou worship Buddha.

The wealth of the monasteries rested in the hands of small numbers of high-ranking lamas.

Several monks declined to comment on the protests in other monasteries - which they were clearly aware of - for fear of being overheard.

As a well-known Buddhist sanctuary, Mt. Emeishan once had more than 100 monasteries.

As for the Irish manuscripts, some were stolen from Irish monasteries.

Monasteries originally developed in the Middle East and Greece form the hermits'huts.

besides Russia, there is Spain, where there is also a great number of churches and monasteries.

After the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century it passed into the hands of collectors.

Monasteries sprang up, which became centres of learning and culture.

But monks say those who don't accept China's terms are stripped of their robes and permanently expelled from their monasteries.

Worshippers would take several days to make the ascent, stopping for the night in one or another of the numerous temples or monasteries.

The monasteries should be emptied from their excessively large monk and nun populations.

The monasteries in particular played an important role in clearing and settling the land, bringing more and more areas under cultivation.

Loans have come from world capitals and from remote monasteries, such as Einsiedeln in Switzerland.

Henry VIII dissolved all of England's monasteries and nunneries because they were much more loyal to the Pope than to their English kings ?

This is one of the oldest monasteries in Sikkim.

The monasteries and buildings were made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994.

Chapter 1 mainly describes the conditions of English society and English monasteries before the Black Death.

The difference is I didn't lose any relatives in the dissolution of the monasteries.

In addition, the monasteries owned a large amount of private property, including serfs and slaves.

The temples and monasteries near Pugan City of Myanmar.

Chapter 2 focuses on the impact of Black Death on English society and English monasteries.

They study the Dai script and Dai culture in the monasteries.

Palace, Tanmiao, monasteries and other large buildings often use such structures.

They are now confined to heavily guarded monasteries.

Tong Yan Xi tea were also introduced to the Tubo, the upper class has gradually become monks and monasteries to study the wind.

He di solved all of England's monasteries and nu eries because they were more loyal to the Pope than to their English kings.

I'm from Hebei. Came here to repair monasteries.

Complex of monasteries in Kotaik province.

Today, about 3, 000 monks live in the 200 stand- ing monasteries scattered around the mainland or perched on rocky island sites.

Apparently he spent a lot of time in the local monasteries poring through writings.

In the Thai Theravada tradition, there are two kinds of monasteries: town monasteries (gamavasi) and forest monasteries (arannavasi).

Church property was seized by the State, which gained most by the suppression of the monasteries;

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